Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida
Synaptic connectivity in cognitive disorders
Dr. Rumbaugh had his Graduate Degree in Neuropharmacology from Georgetown University. Originally focused on cardiovascular medicine he later moved to the field of neuroscience doing a Ph.D. in this discipline at Georgetown.
He later moved to do a five year postdoctoral stay with Professor Richard L. Huganir, at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he started to work on synaptic plasticity and memory. In 2007 he got an Assistant Professor position at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) where he continued to work on the field of synaptic plasticity, known as a group leader. His remarkable work there allowed him to be appointed as Assistant Professor at the The Scripps Research Institute (Florida, USA). His work has importantly contributed to better understand the cellular bases of cognition, and how their dysfunction is implicated in cognitive disorders.